BIB_ID
249937
Accession number
MA 6385
Creator
Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898.
Display Date
Oxford, 1870 December 19.
Credit line
Gift of Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., 1987.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 16 x 10.1 cm + envelope
Notes
Written from "Ch. Ch.", Carroll's abbreviation for Christ Church.
Envelope with stamp and postmarks: "Mrs. Argles, / Barnack Rectory, / Stamford." The recipient was the mother of Agnes ("Dolly") and Edith Argles, child friends of Carroll's.
Written in purple ink.
This item is part of the Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., Lewis Carroll collection. The large collection includes printed books, letters, manuscripts, puzzles and games, personal effects and ephemera, which have been cataloged separately.
Removed from the "Carrolliana" album (MA 6347) assembled by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., folio 50.
The letter is signed C. L. Dodgson. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson adopted the pseudonym "Lewis Carroll" in 1856 when publishing a poem in "The Train." He used the pseudonym when publishing Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and other works, but wrote under his given name, Charles Dodgson, when publishing mathematical works and in daily life. For administrative purposes, all manuscripts are collated under the name Lewis Carroll.
At the end of the letter, there is a list of photographs in another hand; this may be Mrs. Argles's list of the photographs of which she wanted to have copies, or of photographs she already had.
Envelope with stamp and postmarks: "Mrs. Argles, / Barnack Rectory, / Stamford." The recipient was the mother of Agnes ("Dolly") and Edith Argles, child friends of Carroll's.
Written in purple ink.
This item is part of the Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., Lewis Carroll collection. The large collection includes printed books, letters, manuscripts, puzzles and games, personal effects and ephemera, which have been cataloged separately.
Removed from the "Carrolliana" album (MA 6347) assembled by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., folio 50.
The letter is signed C. L. Dodgson. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson adopted the pseudonym "Lewis Carroll" in 1856 when publishing a poem in "The Train." He used the pseudonym when publishing Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and other works, but wrote under his given name, Charles Dodgson, when publishing mathematical works and in daily life. For administrative purposes, all manuscripts are collated under the name Lewis Carroll.
At the end of the letter, there is a list of photographs in another hand; this may be Mrs. Argles's list of the photographs of which she wanted to have copies, or of photographs she already had.
Provenance
From the Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., Lewis Carroll collection; gift of Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., 1987.
Summary
Discussing photographs he had taken of the Argles family; saying that he has not yet entered her order for six or eight copies of a photograph of Agnes, "because I fancy that after all you are only ordering them out of kindness, with the idea that I expect you to order some. Pray don't cherish such an idea for moment -- I am really quite indifferent on the subject: if I have a shade of preference, it would be for no order, as more in harmony with the laziness of disposition"; adding, though, that he would be more than happy to order some at once, "if you really want them"; saying that he is glad she reminded him of other photographs he had promised to send and enclosing two photographs of Edith; discussing other photographs of "Miss Northcote" and "Miss Argles"; listing the photographs he had taken at "Mary Church" (possibly St. Marychurch in Torquay, where Carroll had recently spent time with the Argles family), and including information about the sitters, the poses, and the size (cartes or cabinet); asking which ones she has; adding "Also have I given your daughters one each for themselves? If not, please let them choose among the set, including those I did of Laura Smith."
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